Envisioning Reform: Conceptual and Practical Obstacles to Improving Judicial Performance in Latin AmericaJudicial reform became an important part of the agenda for development in Latin America early in the 1980s, when countries in the region started the process of democratization. Connections began to be made between judicial performance and market-based growth, and development specialists turned their attention to “second generation” institutional reforms. Although considerable progress has been made already in strengthening the judiciary and its supporting infrastructure (police, prosecutors, public defense counsel, the private bar, law schools, and the like), much remains to be done. Linn Hammergren’s book aims to turn the spotlight on the problems in the movement toward judicial reform in Latin America over the past two decades and to suggest ways to keep the movement on track toward achieving its multiple, though often conflicting, goals. After Part I’s overview of the reform movement’s history since the 1980s, Part II examines five approaches that have been taken to judicial reform, tracing their intellectual origins, historical and strategic development, the roles of local and international participants, and their relative success in producing positive change. Part III builds on this evaluation of the five partial approaches by offering a synthetic critique aimed at showing how to turn approaches into strategies, how to ensure they are based on experiential knowledge, and how to unite separate lines of action. |
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... funding and a notable disinclination to subject its use to ordinary accountability mechanisms.16 For many courts ... fund expressed concern about the lack of control over the judiciary. Peru's experience is also very recent, but the post ...
... funding of special investigative units or diplomatic pressures to resolve certain cases. When the opening to democracy brought with it an increase in ordinary criminality (either as a result of the end of dictatorial control or, in the ...
... funding; however, a newly approved judicial reform loan in El Salvador looks much like the initial Venezuela model. Most funds go to a construction program and secondarily to computer purchases, although the major justification is delay ...
... funding extrajudicial programs, often with ngos, court interest in having their own adr facilities has also led to their inclusion in donor projects. In some sense, the adr movement has a life of its own, independent of judicial reform ...
... funding from or promotion by donors.50 This is understandable in that the major activity has been constitutional change to create constitutional courts or enhance the judicial review powers of supreme courts. The initiative is linked to ...
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Envisioning Reform: Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn Hammergren Limited preview - 2010 |
Envisioning Reform: Improving Judicial Performance in Latin America Linn A. Hammergren No preview available - 2007 |